Claude Monet Quotes
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
Quotes to Explore
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.
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We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.
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There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.
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I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
